Inter-ASEAN
| Item title | Author | Description | Language | Accession Number |
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| Essays on an ASEAN Optimal Currency Area | Huff, Kathryn Whittaker | Evaluates the readiness of the ASEAN nations for monetary union using data from the post Asian Financial Crisis period. Provides a general literature review of Optimum Currency Area (OCA) criteria and empirical studies. Explains the G-PPP (Generalized Purchasing Power Parity) model which is a formal test for the presence of an OCA, giving a brief review of recent literature, analysis, and results from tests for nonstationarity and cointegration ...Continue Reading | English | 85323 |
| ASEAN – India Connectivity: Towards an Action Plan | De, Prabir | Studies the development of an appropriate strategy to enhance the connectivity between India and ASEAN for the potential benefits for both parties, assessing the connectivity between India and ASEAN. Explains the rising of ASEAN-India trade, looking at trends in India's trade for both export and import with ASEAN from 2000-2009, and India's export to and import from ASEAN+3. Examines international trade of India's Northeastern region (NER), con ...Continue Reading | English | 85316 |
| ASEAN-India Connectivity – Progress So Far | Suthiphand Chirathivat | Studies the rationale for ASEAN-India connectivity, mentioning the Master Plan on ASEAN Connectivity (MPAC). Looks at motivations for ASEAN connectivity in terms of the market size, developmental gaps, ASEAN's centrality, and connectivity beyond the region. Examines trade flows between ASEAN-India, showing the ASEAN-India total trade in 1990, 2000 and 2010, and the growth of export share of intermediate goods from ASEAN nations to India. Notes ...Continue Reading | English | 85315 |
| Two Crises, Two Responses: Adjustment of Economic Governance in ASEAN and the European Union | Blizkovsky, Petr | Analyzes the changes in the institutional and regulatory framework in two regional organizations as a reaction to the financial and economic crisis, scrutinizing the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the European Union (EU), and the two events: the Asian financial crisis in 1997-1998 that affected ASEAN and the 2008 global financial crisis followed by the sovereign debt crisis in the EU. Presents the key literature findings conc ...Continue Reading | English | 85243 |
| Towards the ASEAN Community 2015 | Describes the ASEAN community, covering the origin, members, Bangkok Declaration, ASEAN summit, establishment of ASEAN community, main purposes, identity, motto, flag, emblem, day, anthem, working language, office of the secretariat, and population. Studies why ASEAN community was established, including Thailand and ASEAN Community, the vision of ASEAN as the Community of Action, Community of Connectivity, and Community of People, and benefits f ...Continue Reading | Thai | 85093 | |
| ASEAN Economic Community | Anadon Chueathai | Introduces the ten ASEAN member countries on general information, and economic indicators and international trade in 2008. Describes the origin of ASEAN through different periods, showing the development of the ASEAN Community from before (1967-2007) and after (2008-2012) the ASEAN charter, and the active role of Thailand. Explains the ASEAN Declaration, Treaty of Amity and Cooperation in Southeast Asia, the structure and mechanisms of ASEAN, a ...Continue Reading | Thai | 84909 |
| ASEAN Economic Community | Anadon Chueathai | Introduces the ten ASEAN member countries on general information, and economic indicators and international trade in 2008. Describes the origin of ASEAN through different periods, showing the development of the ASEAN Community from before (1967-2007) and after (2008-2012) the ASEAN charter, and the active role of Thailand. Explains the ASEAN Declaration, Treaty of Amity and Cooperation in Southeast Asia, the structure and mechanisms of ASEAN, a ...Continue Reading | Thai | 84909 |
| Taking Stock of the ROOs in the ASEAN+1 FTAs: Toward Deepening East Asian Integration | Medalla, Erlinda M | Compiles a database on the Rules of Origin (ROOs) of the ASEAN plus 1 FTAs: ASEAN Trade in Goods Agreement (ATIGA), ASEAN-Korea FTA (AKFTA), ASEAN-China FTA (ACFTA), ASEAN-Japan Comprehensive Economic Partnership (AJCEP), ASEAN-Australia-New Zealand FTA (AANZFTA). Notes that database compilation is done for the bilateral FTAs forged by Japan with individual ASEAN countries and India, mentioning that multiple FTAs could create a complex web of ru ...Continue Reading | English | 84883 |
| Toward a Consolidated Preferential Tariff Structure in East Asia: Going Beyond ASEAN+1 FTAs | Fukunaga, Yoshifumi | Discusses possible template for trade in good chapters of so-called ASEAN++ Free Trade Agreement (FTA). Deals with tariff structure under current ASEAN+1 FTAs. Recommends further efforts by ASEAN countries and their FTA partners to meet 90% or 95% tariff elimination thresholds. Emphasizes on level of tariff eliminations, common concession and the level of commitment, possibility for special and differentiated treatments, approaches to non-tari ...Continue Reading | English | 84797 |
| Liberalization of Trade in Services: Toward a Harmonized ASEAN++FTA | Ishido, Hikari | Discusses the consolidation of ASEAN by East Asian countries to develop so-called ASEAN++ Free trade Agreement (FTA). Emphasizes service trade liberalization in this new trade agreement.Suggests a policy option of narrowing the service trade limitations, looking for the needs of prioritizing production related service sector. Contains brief explanation of service destruction index of ASEAN Framework Agreement on Services (AFAS) and ASEAN+1 FTA, ...Continue Reading | English | 84793 |
| East Asia on a Road Toward a Community | Paisan Rupanichkij | Traces the relation and cooperation in East Asia from the past to present. Analyzes the concepts and factors supporting the regional groupings in East Asia, citing the East Asia Economic Group (EAEG) proposed by Malaysia in 1990. Summarizes the relations between ASEAN and China, Japan, South Korea before the cooperation framework of ASEAN+3. Examines the development of ASEAN+3 which is the important mechanism for driving the East Asian coopera ...Continue Reading | Thai | 84730 |
| ASEAN Liberalization 2015: Thai Society Adapts to Change , Academic Forum on 26 September 2011 at Nonthaburi | Academic Forum ASEAN Liberalization 2015: Thai Society Adapts to Change (2011 : Nonthaburi) | Compiles information on ASEAN, dealing with 10 ASEAN member countries, ASEAN+3 (China, South Korea, Japan), ASEAN+6 (China, Japan, South Korea, India, Australia, New Zealand). Mentions benefits from ASEAN liberalization, particularly the ASEAN Economic Cooperation (AEC) in 2015. Highlights the social development and social welfare of Thai society towards ASEAN. Covers topics on children and youth, gender equality, disabled people, human traffi ...Continue Reading | Thai | 84453 |
| ASEAN Liberalization 2015: Thai Society Adapts to Change , Academic Forum on 26 September 2011 at Nonthaburi | Academic Forum ASEAN Liberalization 2015: Thai Society Adapts to Change (2011 : Nonthaburi) | Compiles information on ASEAN, dealing with 10 ASEAN member countries, ASEAN+3 (China, South Korea, Japan), ASEAN+6 (China, Japan, South Korea, India, Australia, New Zealand). Mentions benefits from ASEAN liberalization, particularly the ASEAN Economic Cooperation (AEC) in 2015. Highlights the social development and social welfare of Thai society towards ASEAN. Covers topics on children and youth, gender equality, disabled people, human traffi ...Continue Reading | Thai | 84453 |
| Improving Cooperation on Trade and Investment with ASEAN New Member Countries, Seminar on 21 February 2001 at Royal River Hotel, Bangkok | Seminar on Improving Cooperation on Trade and Investment with ASEAN New Member Countries (2001 : Bangkok) | Describes background and objectives of the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN), covering ASEAN Free Trade Area (AFTA), e-ASEAN agreement, ASEAN Investment Area (AIA), ASEAN Industrial Cooperation Scheme (AICO), ASEAN framework agreement of the facilitation of goods in transit, ASEAN economic cooperation (AEC), and the protocol regarding the implementation of the CEPT scheme temporary exclusion list. Mentions the joint statement on Ea ...Continue Reading | Thai | 84435 |
| The Construction of Regional Institutions in the Asia-Pacific and East Asia: Origins, Motives, and Evolution | Komori, Yasumasa | Analyzes the formation of the regional arrangements: the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), and the ASEAN+3 (APT). Proposes an institutionalist framework that addresses two related questions: why are regional institutions created, and how are they created? Explores the variation of state preferences concerning regionalism among key governments. Argues that the urgent governmental demand for both APEC and APT was driven by the defensive ...Continue Reading | English | 84335 |
| ASEAN-China Free Trade Area | Chia Siow Yue | Looks at the ASEAN-China Free Trade Area (ACFTA) in the context of the rise of China and its WTO accession. Analyzes the developments in ASEAN economic integration, mentioning the ASEAN Free Trade Area (AFTA), ASEAN Framework Agreement on Services (AFAS), and ASEAN Investment Area (AIA). Examines ASEAN-China economic relations in the areas of trade, investment, and competition for foreign direct investment. Mentions features of the Framework A ...Continue Reading | English | 84304 |
| ASEAN-China Free Trade Area | Chia Siow Yue | Looks at the ASEAN-China Free Trade Area (ACFTA) in the context of the rise of China and its WTO accession. Analyzes the developments in ASEAN economic integration, mentioning the ASEAN Free Trade Area (AFTA), ASEAN Framework Agreement on Services (AFAS), and ASEAN Investment Area (AIA). Examines ASEAN-China economic relations in the areas of trade, investment, and competition for foreign direct investment. Mentions features of the Framework A ...Continue Reading | English | 84304 |
| ASEAN’s Expansion: The ARF, EAS and A+3 | Hammond, Blaec | Explains why ASEAN came to lead three regional organizations the ASEAN-led ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF), ASEAN Plus Three (ASEAN+3) and East Asia Summit (EAS). Provides reasons for the ASEAN expansion i.e. ASEAN's unrivalled experience, the circumstances of APEC's formation, and threats to state sovereignty. Deals with ASEAN's formation, the expansion to Indochina, the ARF, and the EAS. Considers Indochina's economic liberalization, the 1997 Asi ...Continue Reading | English | 84252 |
| Annual Report 2002-2003 Association of Southeast Asian Nations | Reports the achievement of ASEAN during 2002-2003, highlighting the chapters on regional peace and stability, economic integration and cooperation, human and social development, transnational issues, and ASEAN external relations. Deals with the cooperation in the areas of trade, investments, services, tourism, industry, small and medium enterprises, intellectual property, finance, transportation, energy, ICT and telecommunications, Initiatives f ...Continue Reading | English | 84218 | |
| Chiang Mai Initiative Multilateralization: International Politics and Institution-Building in Asia | Ciorciari, John D | Analyzes Chiang Mai Initiative Multilateralization's (CMIM) basic institutional features and related international politics. Reflects both progress and the continuing political challenges of building regional institutions in Asia. Argues that the most important interactions have occurred between richer and poorer economies, between China and Japan, and between Asian officials and their Western counterparts, especially at the U.S. Treasury and t ...Continue Reading | English | 84099 |
